anthropomorphous

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But affliction makes opposing forces loom anthropomorphous; and those ideas were now exchanged for a sense of Jude and herself fleeing from a persecutor.

From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas

The same remark is applicable to the tailless condition of man; for the tail is absent in all the anthropomorphous apes.

From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Darwin, Charles

The question also arises, if man has been produced from an anthropomorphous ape by a process of natural development, how is it that the same process has not gone on in other lines?

From Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science by Ackland, T. S. (Thomas Suter)

The relations between man and ape are most readily stated in 110 comparison with the gorilla, as on the whole the most anthropomorphous ape.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

Would it be fog or light that would envelop the history of man if we say that the existence of man was explained by the hypothesis of his gradual evolution from a primitive anthropomorphous form? 

From Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals by Butler, Samuel